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ROBERT ALBRO

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Inauthenticity and the Tweet Tweet of Digital Diplomacy

Most often associated with Alec Ross’s stint at the State Department as Senior Advisor for Innovation, diplomacy’s rush to better leverage the advantages of social media and mobile technologies by investing in ediplomacy and PD 2.0 is no secret. On his first day as new Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs last February, Richard Stengel made his position clear: social media […]

Posted in Cultural exchange, Digital Diplomacy, Propaganda, Social Networks Tagged cultural dialogue, cultural exchange, digital diplomacy, Propaganda, Public Diplomacy 1 Comment

Cultural Diplomacy of and by the Book

Frameworks for cultural diplomacy in the U.S. are often too narrow and too broad. On the one hand, self-identified practitioners of cultural diplomacy – within and outside government – tend to identify, if somewhat generically, specific exportable forms of expressive culture (think: music, theater, literature, dance, murals, or film). Particularly for government-sponsored cultural diplomacy programming, these […]

Posted in Creative economy, Cultural diplomacy, Cultural exchange, Soft power Tagged Creative economy, cultural dialogue, cultural exchange, Publishing, Soft Power 1 Comment

Cultural Exchange and the Politics of Suspicion

This past week the Washington Post ran a story about the troubles of Russian lawmaker Dimitri Gudkov, assailed by his government for having the temerity to visit the U.S. and address U.S.-Russian relations on Capitol Hill. As the short article explained Gudkov was in the U.S. to participate in a forum dedicated to “democracy and human rights,” organized […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural exchange, Soft power Tagged China, Civil society, Cultural Diplomacy, cultural exchange, Cultural Policy, Journalism, Russia, Soft Power Leave a comment

Collaborative/Creative Diplomacy/Partnerships

Stephanie Stallings recently suggested that creative collaboration is a useful model for cultural diplomacy. She is definitely onto something. Circumstances have changed around the work of diplomacy. Publics are now much less distant, more assertive, and actively engaged participants in the making of their encompassing cultural worlds. To embrace this new reality likely requires rethinking […]

Posted in Cultural diplomacy, Cultural exchange, Social Networks Tagged Collaboration, Cultural Diplomacy, cultural exchange, Intercultural Dialogue, Social networks Leave a comment
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Blogroll

  • 3 Quarks Daily
  • Anthropology Now
  • Anthropologyworks
  • Arts Diplomacy Network
  • Aspen Institute's Global Initiative on Culture and Society
  • Crooked Timber
  • Cultural Heritage Web
  • Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago
  • Culture Matters
  • Ethnography Matters
  • Exchange — The Journal of Public Diplomacy
  • Intermap
  • International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
  • John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
  • MountainRunner
  • Public Diplomacy Council
  • Savage Minds
  • Slate's Future Tense
  • Take Five
  • The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy
  • USC Public Diplomacy Center Blog

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Recent Posts

  • Global Dialogues among Cultural Producers in an Era of Nativist Travel Bans
  • Inauthenticity and the Tweet Tweet of Digital Diplomacy
  • Cultural Diplomacy of and by the Book
  • Troping the Enemy: Culture, Metaphor Programs, and Notional Publics of National Security
  • The Arts of International Affairs: Time for a New Conversation about Culture

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